Category: DAB
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This is my fourth week at my host university and finally everything has been settled pretty well. Life here in China is very different from life in Australia, like very different. I’m not sure about the other universities, but for my host university – Sun Yat-Sen University we have 5 campus, and each has a…
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I walk into an empty house, up the stairs and unlock the door into an empty room. I’m spending the next 5 months here. With a lingering airplane smell, I proceeded to analyse everything about this space. What kind of people will I meet? Who are my roommates who have stacked up the pantry full…
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Spain always seemed like a holiday destination to me, the thought of having tapas, sangrias and the infamous fiestas and siestas always sounded like a dream. Its sounds a bit silly and cliched saying that I’m living the dream here but it has far exceeded my expectations. It’s odd to think of Madrid as a…
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January – February 2019 Hello! Here I am, back in Sydney after a month-long whirlwind of a trip to the other side of the world. Travelling to the United States, I was one of 28 people who undertook a subject which saw us visit architecture by the likes of Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd…
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As a multicultural nation, Singapore faces the difficult challenge of bringing together communities of different ethnicities, beliefs, cultures and languages. As the focal point of the subject, it was fascinating to see how this reflected in every aspect of Singaporean culture: from packaging and signage, to community spaces and entire suburbs. I would not have…
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I would gladly define “above and beyond” as an exposition of expectation and experience. My 4 Weeks in the Unites States of America was a fast paced, vortex of an Adventure. 70+ Houses, Sites, Landmarks, Buildings and Landscapes visited and a whole archive of drawings, memories, photographs and life changing events created. New York, Chicago…
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Although it’s already been a few days since I arrived here in Osaka, Japan, I still find it hard to believe that I will be living here for the next few months. When I first arrived in the airport, one of the first few things that I noticed about Japan was the weather. It was…
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It has been exactly a month since coming to Hong Kong and that feels so strange to think about how fast time is passing. As someone who hasn’t lived away from home before or travelled much overseas, I was surprised how easy it was to adjust to this new life and culture. It’s such a…
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Going into this project I was unsure of what to expect. I had little knowledge of Christchurch or of the destruction and damage caused to the city and its people by the devastating earthquake in 2011. When drafting and researching for the design our team wanted to acknowledge the past and look towards a brighter…
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Néih hóu from Hong Kong! I’m writing this blog post 2 weeks into my exchange at City University of Hong Kong. So far it’s been an awesome experience. Accommodation I started my exchange with a brief trip to Hangzhou, China. I’m glad I started off in Mainland China as, after experiencing such a foreign world,…
